Buffet Blues
“Let’s go for Chinese, you said, maybe get the buffet?” he parroted. “Why do I put stock in your restaurant choices?”
“Oh, stop your whining Aldus, …and maybe don’t belly up to the trough nine times.”
“At $13.99 a head, it’s highway robbery. I gotta get our bloody money’s worth, Mary!” he fired back as he bolted for the loo.
“Then don’t complain that you got the collywobbles!”
Fandango’s One Word Challenge.
Prompt Word: Stock.
Date: 2022-10-15 | Tags: #fowc
Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt #281.
Prompt Word: Collywobbles | Word Count: 68
Date: 2022-10-15 | Tags: #weekendwritingprompt
Image: Courtesy of Mandarin Restaurants.
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You don’t have the right to complain if it’s your choice
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Yeah, but we still do… its never our own excess, it’s the restaurant’s fault always!!!
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